Sophos Network Access Control Reviews

The solution offers very good visibility.

The fact that it is a single management solution is quite useful. Whether it's on-premises or on the cloud, we're able to manage it centrally.

The solution is quite user-friendly.

We don't have much experience with the solution just yet. It's only been a few months. I'm not sure which features are lacking.

A few items are complex when it comes to handling the initial setup.

The solution could offer more useful documentation. 

We found it difficult to find metrics on the solution. They should work to make this more intuitive.

I've been working with the solution for just about three months.

The solution is stable. I haven't seen any bugs or glitches. There haven't been any crashes. We can count on it. It's reliable. It's quite good.

The scalability is very, very good. They use very light containers. It's not hard to expand if a company needs to. However, pricing is based on the devices themselves. If a company needs additional devices, it becomes much less feasible. A large corporation won't have trouble with this, but a smaller organization might.

I don't have enough experience with technical support to really comment on their level of service. The solution is still new to us.

We're also using Cisco and Fortinet solutions.

The initial setup has a moderate level of difficulty. Some things are simple. Others are more complex.

The deployment typically takes a week or two.

I handled the deployment myself with the help of a team.

The pricing is okay, but the cost of scaling can be expensive if a company must buy more devices.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. If the metrics were easier to find, we would rate it higher.

If there is an infected system, the firewall will alert me and we can actually take that system off the network and isolate it. The Sophos people will resolve that issue and then bring the system back to the network.

Sophos has an endpoint side, a firewall side, access control, and a phishing side. It is an entire network security solution.

What Sophos has done is integrate almost the entire OSI layer infrastructure. It gives me visibility across my infrastructure. It gives me visibility into all the mobile devices that are on my network and into the security I have on those mobile devices. I also have visibility into my users, my servers, and into what is happening at all my gateways, as well as visibility on my switches. So it gives me a global view of my infrastructure.

The beautiful thing about it is that it has an integration between the endpoint and the firewall. So if any of my endpoints, systems like desktops or laptops, does not have an updated patch, it will be disconnected from the network.

What needs to be improved on is the fact that Sophos consumes a lot of processor resources and, once it starts scanning, the RAM utilization is very high. I am a little bit worried about where Sophos is. A system with 4 GB would struggle. Even when it scans systems that have 8 GB, they struggle.

Also, one of the things that Sophos has not been able to tidy up properly — and I asked them about it — is that it would be nice if a person who is using Sophos on mobile devices could connect to the office using some type of multi-factor authentication. I would like to see a mobile app that generates a token inside our system and then it signs you into our network.

We have been using Sophos for a few years.

It's stable.

It is easy to scale the product.

Sophos support is okay because we have people here, Sophos technical partners, in Nigeria. We are not really dependent on Sophos outside the country. They are in UK, but we have not had to depend on them there to resolve many issues. We have asked them to help one or two times.

The initial setup is straightforward.

I would recommend Sophos, including Intercept X which is their anti-virus software for endpoints. I would also advise, if you are getting Sophos, to make sure you upgrade systems from 4 GB to 8 GB and make sure you upgrade your systems from Windows 7 to Windows 10, so you will be fully protected.

I primarily use the solution to manage all of our devices.

The scalability of the system and the performance of the system and the solution's most valuable features.

The solution could increase the integration with other platforms or other systems. This would be very useful.

The solution is quite stable.

The solution is quite scalable. We have plans to increase and to distribute the system into other departments internally within the company in the near future.

Technical support is good. There is a chat system that is very useful and it's quite easy to receive support on different questions through it.

For on-premises I used a different solution but it's not so easy to compare the solutions because they are both on a different level. We used a Bitdefender-like private solution, but this solution is not really comparable. With Sophos, you have data control also on their hardware interface because the system is completely integrated with the infrastructure of the company. And the private solution doesn't provide the same level for infrastructure. This feature is not so easy to make a one-to-one comparison.

If you have the correct knowledge base, the initial setup is not complex. Deployment took less than a week and took about three people. For maintenance, we only need one person to manage it.

I handled the implementation myself apart from one section that was related to the hardware, but mainly for the integration with the other devices internally to the company. In this case, I needed to have a person with more expertise in charge. 

Licensing is on a yearly basis.

We didn't evaluate other options before choosing Sophos.

We're a Sophos partner. We tend to use both deployment models. Mainly, the hardware is on-premise, but all the management is on the cloud. For me, it's a better way to use this solution.

The system right now covers all my needs and it's very comfortable to work with.

For those considering implementing the solution, they need to be sure to have a complete overview of the system at the beginning. They need to know how they want to solve the need and the problems that they have. Everyone should start with an overview from the top.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

• Comprehensive threat analysis
• Network access compliance'
• Ease of endpoint management
• Low resource utilization

It provides email alerts to the End User Computing team when endpoints have been compromised, and enables network remediation for unknown endpoints.

I'd like to see them include direct integration with Active Directory.

I've used it for five years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Their customer support is really good and so is their documentation and knowledge base site.

It’s excellent, at one point our licensing lapsed and they still helped us with a complex virus outbreak.

Previously used McAfee and evaluated Kaspersky, we switched from McAfee to Sophos because of price and features.

The initial setup was straightforward, server deployment was easy and policy creation and templates were easy to setup with selection items from a list.

We implemented it in-house, just read the documentation and check the knowledge base, most of the issues that you’ll run into are documented.

The return on our investment was huge, mostly due to the time saved in managing thousands of physical endpoints.

Test your remediation policy thoroughly before instituting it house wide.

Sophos Network Access Control is used for access control and network security.

Sophos Network Access Control has a useful interface, and I like its dashboard, which is very useful for us to check everything.

I last used Sophos Network Access Control for user access control. I expected the solution to combine all of the network devices in our organization. We sometimes have problems with the solution's configuration on other devices that are not listed. It would be good if Sophos Network Access Control had better integration with other devices.

I have been using Sophos Network Access Control for five to six years.

Sophos Network Access Control is a stable solution.

I rate Sophos Network Access Control a nine out of ten for stability.

Our clients for Sophos Network Access Control are medium-sized businesses with around 300 users.

I rate Sophos Network Access Control a six or seven out of ten for scalability.

I rate Sophos Network Access Control a four out of ten for the ease of its initial setup. The vendor consultant is not quite helpful, and we have to try other resources.

It takes only one week to deploy Sophos Network Access Control.

Sophos Network Access Control is an expensive solution.

Overall, I rate Sophos Network Access Control an eight out of ten.